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Walmart is very good for hiring seniors.
My aunt worked there. Liked it. Then my mom (her sister) died, and they would not give her even a DAY off to go to the funeral. Not one day. My mom's funeral was a weekday, my aunt lived in FL and she had to get to VA.
My aunt had to QUIT in order to attend her sister's funeral.
I can't support a company that does that.
Also, we recently found that we love pomegranites but they were $1 each.
A dollar's a bargain for pomegranates around here.
food for me is a big one. i am celiac and GF stuff can be much more expensive, $6 for a loaf of bread anyone?
I would probably try baking your own bread. The start-up purchases for bread can be high, but then the loaves aren't that much.
We are trying to finish up paying off CC debt. She wonders why we can't seem to get it paid off.
That has got to be SO hard. I'm sorry.
To give you something else to worry about; a friend of mine had a frugal husband (not in a bad way, but in a mature grownup way while she still wanted to be childlike). She got her own, secret, credit card. She paid for it with getting cash out while using her debit card for groceries. So if you're not looking at the receipts, you might want to, just to be sure $$ isn't coming out of that. Sorry to do that to you, but it's something that some people do. Our friendship waned before he finally figured it out, but I'm SURE he did, eventually.
My dogs are what makes it hard for me to be frugal.
I can imagine!
My husband and son REALLY want to get a dog, but we simply cannot afford one. They aren't big fans of this line of thinking, but we had a cat and she had serious problems (can a cat be OCD? she was, and it came out in licking one spot on her leg until she'd started a horrid, long-lasting, infection...and she had a very strict diet, etc etc), and that got expensive enough. Let alone a dog with its greater needs for food...
I love to shop and I love to take expensive vacations!
I was just wondering what my downfall was, and yep, it's vacations.
The women I see working in Wal-Mart seem to be doing just fine.
That's nice, but it doesn't mean that's true everywhere, or even true for the women you're seeing *while they are at work*.
My mom just missed being part of the Publix class action suit (she had quit before the time period mentioned in the suit started), but that suit CHANGED things for women working at Publix. My mom experienced the discrimination loud and clear EVERY day working there, and it was awful for her. But if you saw her AT work you would never have known she was miserable and just waiting for her clearance to come through for the job she was getting.
I don't do thrift of consignment shops because honestly, I can get brand new, name brand stuff for cheaper when it's on clearance. My weakness is Old Navy clearance and the Osh Kosh outlet. This is why all of my kids have WAYYYYY too many clothes.
That is hilarious. Thankfully, DH and I are on the same page when it comes to budgeting. 
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ME TOO!
